Typhoid fever is a forgotten disease in today's society, but for the people of nineteenth century Australia it was part of their every day lives. This thesis examines the role that the Queensland colonial government, the medical profession, and the communities of Toowoomba and Brisbane played in the fight against the disease. At separation from New South Wales the Queensland government officials were new and inexperienced and had inherited a financial debt. These circumstances resulted in cautionary governance when it came to public health policy and issues, but determination and single-mindedness when it came to development of roads and railway lines. The government’s view at the time was if the colony was to prosper then this type of infrastructure must be developed at all costs. What the government failed to realise was that the infrastructure of drainage and sewerage, associated with good public health policies, needed to go side by side with other types of infrastructure. The prosperity of the colony rested on the health of its people. Because of the failure of the government to recognise the value of strong public health legislation it was up to the medical profession and the community to be vigilant and take the challenge to the government. This study has found that throughout the second half of the nineteenth century the medical profession and the community with the support of various newspapers had to challenge the government on public health issues consistently in relation to typhoid fever. This political pressure was more successful in Toowoomba where William Groom’s leadership achieved some important engineering solutions whereas campaigns in the capital, Brisbane, were marked by diversity and divisions. Intransigent colonial government policy condemned both cities to inadequate sanitation infrastructure until the twentieth century.

Thesis--Catholic University of America. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 21-23).

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-114).

Thesis--Catholic Univ. of America.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Georgia State University, 2007. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 319-350). Original electric version created as PDF file.

published_or_final_version / Microbiology / Master / Master of Philosophy

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:33:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-02-23Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:05:16Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 freitasneto_oc_dr_jabo.pdf: 1961940 bytes, checksum: 7291da4800867b31fbd9a7d43c4a44cd (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / S. Gallinarum (SG) provoca o tifo aviário, doença sistêmica com alta mortalidade em aves. Esse biovar é imóvel devido à falta de flagelos. Foi sugerido que a ausência de flagelo resultaria na indução de resposta pró-inflamatória de menor intensidade na mucosa intestinal, favorecendo o desenvolvimento da infecção sistêmica. Para investigar essa hipótese, um mutante de SG capaz de produzir flagelos (SG Fla+) foi construído. Analisou-se a capacidade deste mutante de invadir células epiteliais renais (CRGs), sobreviver em macrófagos da linhagem HD 11 e induzir a expressão de genes responsáveis por mediadores da resposta imune nestas células, em conjunto com outras estirpes de Salmonella spp. Aliado a isso, comparou-se a patogenicidade de SG Fla+ e SG para aves de uma linhagem para postura comercial, avaliando-se a mortalidade e as alterações macroscópicas. Os resultados demonstraram que o flagelo aumentou a capacidade de invasão das estirpes para CRGs, mas não alterou a sobrevivência de SG Fla+ no interior dos macrófagos HD 11. SG Fla+ induziu a maior aumento da expressão de CXCLi2, IL-6 e de iNOS em CRGs que as estirpes sem flagelos (p<0,05). A expressão de genes responsáveis por mediadores da resposta imune em macrófagos HD11 não esteve ligada a presença de flagelo. SG Fla+ provocou menores taxas de mortalidade que SG (p<0,05). Após 28 dias do desafio, SG Fla+ foi isolada no conteúdo de alguns cecos com alterações sugestivas de inflamação / S. Gallinarum (SG) is the causative agent of fowl typhoid, a systemic disease responsible for high mortality rates in birds. This biovar is non-motile due to the lack of flagella. It has been proposed that the absence of flagellum would provoke less pro-inflammatory immune response in the gut, favoring the development of systemic infection. In order to investigate this, a SG mutant strain capable of producing flagella (SG Fla+) was constructed. The capability of this mutant and other Salmonella spp. strains in invading chicken kidney cells (CKCs), surviving in HD 11 macrophages and inducing inflammatory responses in these cells were assessed. In adittion, the pathogenicity of SG Fla+ and SG was comparatively assessed in commercial laying hens. Mortality rates and gross lesions were evaluated. The results shown that flagellum increased the invasiveness of strains to CKCs while its presence did not change the survival of SG Fla+ in HD11 macrophages. SG Fla+ induced higher levels of CXCLi2, IL- 6 and iNOS gene expression than non-flagellated strains did (p<0.05). The expression of genes responsible for mediators of immune responses in infected HD11 macrophages were not related to the presence of flagella. SG Fla+ caused lower mortality rates than SG (p<0.05). SG Fla+ was recovered from the contents of caeca which presented inflammation-like macroscopic alterations not observed in birds infected with SG

Orientador: Angelo Berchieri Júnior / Coorientador: Paul Barrow / Banca: Guilherme Correa de Oliveira / Banca: Fabiana Horn / Banca: Raphael Lucio Andreatti Filho / Banca: Manoel Victor Franco Lemos / Resumo: S. Gallinarum (SG) provoca o tifo aviário, doença sistêmica com alta mortalidade em aves. Esse biovar é imóvel devido à falta de flagelos. Foi sugerido que a ausência de flagelo resultaria na indução de resposta pró-inflamatória de menor intensidade na mucosa intestinal, favorecendo o desenvolvimento da infecção sistêmica. Para investigar essa hipótese, um mutante de SG capaz de produzir flagelos (SG Fla+) foi construído. Analisou-se a capacidade deste mutante de invadir células epiteliais renais (CRGs), sobreviver em macrófagos da linhagem HD 11 e induzir a expressão de genes responsáveis por mediadores da resposta imune nestas células, em conjunto com outras estirpes de Salmonella spp. Aliado a isso, comparou-se a patogenicidade de SG Fla+ e SG para aves de uma linhagem para postura comercial, avaliando-se a mortalidade e as alterações macroscópicas. Os resultados demonstraram que o flagelo aumentou a capacidade de invasão das estirpes para CRGs, mas não alterou a sobrevivência de SG Fla+ no interior dos macrófagos HD 11. SG Fla+ induziu a maior aumento da expressão de CXCLi2, IL-6 e de iNOS em CRGs que as estirpes sem flagelos (p<0,05). A expressão de genes responsáveis por mediadores da resposta imune em macrófagos HD11 não esteve ligada a presença de flagelo. SG Fla+ provocou menores taxas de mortalidade que SG (p<0,05). Após 28 dias do desafio, SG Fla+ foi isolada no conteúdo de alguns cecos com alterações sugestivas de inflamação / Abstract: S. Gallinarum (SG) is the causative agent of fowl typhoid, a systemic disease responsible for high mortality rates in birds. This biovar is non-motile due to the lack of flagella. It has been proposed that the absence of flagellum would provoke less pro-inflammatory immune response in the gut, favoring the development of systemic infection. In order to investigate this, a SG mutant strain capable of producing flagella (SG Fla+) was constructed. The capability of this mutant and other Salmonella spp. strains in invading chicken kidney cells (CKCs), surviving in HD 11 macrophages and inducing inflammatory responses in these cells were assessed. In adittion, the pathogenicity of SG Fla+ and SG was comparatively assessed in commercial laying hens. Mortality rates and gross lesions were evaluated. The results shown that flagellum increased the invasiveness of strains to CKCs while its presence did not change the survival of SG Fla+ in HD11 macrophages. SG Fla+ induced higher levels of CXCLi2, IL- 6 and iNOS gene expression than non-flagellated strains did (p<0.05). The expression of genes responsible for mediators of immune responses in infected HD11 macrophages were not related to the presence of flagella. SG Fla+ caused lower mortality rates than SG (p<0.05). SG Fla+ was recovered from the contents of caeca which presented inflammation-like macroscopic alterations not observed in birds infected with SG / Doutor

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